Word: enthusiastically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robert M. Parker Jr., is writer-publisher of a plain-as-plonk (no ads, no pictures) bimonthly newsletter, The Wine Advocate. His trenchant opinions, as well as his still debated ratings of wine on a 100- point scale, are recycled into columns for the Prodigy computer network and Wine Enthusiast and Food & Wine magazines. They also feed his awesomely detailed Guide, which includes ahs and boos for 7,500 wines. Parker devotes more lineage to bottom-drawer bargains than he used to, so there is helpful advice here on $6 Cabernet Sauvignons from Chile and good-value Chardonnays from South...
...Just so." And why not? When the 20th crime fable by a skilled old pro turns up on the library shelf, the heart of the villainy enthusiast knows peace. Brain cells may safely graze. Here, newly old, are four of this season's best crime novels by writers who've been around the course a few times...
...excitement. "We just decided that Pocatello, with its low crime and good schools, was the place we wanted to raise a child," says Peter Angstadt, 38, a transplant from Fremont, California. He moved in 1987, and in 1989 became mayor of the Idaho town. Angstadt, a jogger and bicycle enthusiast, thrives on Pocatello's old-fashioned, small-town neighborliness: "When you ask someone for directions, they practically lead you there in their...
...Michael Crichton sketched the old man in the novel Jurassic Park. But the Hammond played by Richard Attenborough in Steven Spielberg's movie version is another fellow altogether; the director calls him "a cross between Walt Disney and Ross Perot." Hammond is certainly a visionary, a fabulous showman, an enthusiast, an emperor of ice cream, a kid with a great new toy. "Top of the line!" he chirps. "Spared no expense!" Why, he might be Spielberg as a foxy grandpa...
...with most good scientists and journalists, the skepticism is balanced by an enthusiast's energy. The head researcher position is a full-time job, but Dorfman is also one of the section's more prolific reporters. A biology major at Yale, where she was also science editor of the Yale Daily News, she has covered everything from the Neolithic Iceman found in an Alpine glacier to the Exxon Valdez oil spill to genetic engineering. She was also one of the organizing hands behind TIME's intensive treatment of the 1992 Earth Summit. Still, Dorfman, who keeps a small collection...